Blogs about: Christmas

Whether you prefer your Christmas somber and reflective or festive and Santa-focused — or maybe a bit of both? — there’s no doubt that for many of us, Christmas is one of the most cherished times of the year. We bake special foods, give lots of gifts and maybe even go to church a time or two. Where ever you are and however you celebrate, we hope you have a good one.

Featured Posts
Tuesday Tales – Small Town Picture Prompt
More from this author

Inside This Writer's Mind It’s time for another Tuesday Tales! Today we are working with a picture prompt. I’m veering away from The Thirteenth Knight this week. Today we are catching back up with Max and Chloe in Breaking the Cycle. And don’t forget to check out the excerpts from my extremely talented fellow authors on the Tuesday Tales website! “Thank you for coming with me to my nephew’s birthday party, Chloe.” Max slipped the car keys into his pocket as he gave her the sweetest, largest smile she ever saw. “I can’t wait to introduce you to my family.” Chloe trotted beside him as they walked along the sidewalk. “It’s only fair. You’ve met my mom.” He laughed. “Chloe, sweetheart. I live with you and your mom.” She giggled in response. As they strolled along the sidewalk she glanced around at downtown New Ulm. It was a far cry from Minneapolis. There were department stores most people in metropolitan areas hadn’t seen since the late 1970’s. There were small town gift shops full of quilting su

More from this author
Wee Wednesday Time….
Stamps, Paper, Ribbons n Things

Today is Wee Wednesday at Magnolialicious and Wee Stamps and It’s my turn to share another darling Sylvia Zet Wee Stamp with you. I’ve chosen the very cute Xmas Hampster and some sweet Magnolia Christmas DP to create this pretty card: My image is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black onto Copic Express Card and coloured with Copic Sketch Markers. The Copics used are as follows: E27, E25, E23, E53, E51, E50, R30, R29, R27, R24, R22, W3, W1, W00 I have added some sparkle to the bauble with Kindy Glitz For a closer look: And another: Remember for each comment you leave on a DT gal’s blog (1 comment per blog, per post) you get entered to win the Surprise Prize this week.  It counts for your comments on all Mini Monday, Tuesday Challenge posts, and Wee Wednesday posts too…so lots of ways to get entered!  Winners are announced each Wednesday…so check back each week to see if you’ve won! The lovely  Angela and Janiel are also sharing some Wee stamps with you today so pop by and tak

The Latest Posts in Christmas
Recently posted on WordPress.com Subscribe
Thoughts On: Glee – S04 E10 (Glee, Actually)
In my own state of mind

No recap for this episode. It’s Christmas time! (This post is quite late, isn’t it? Lol ) Sue is writing in her journal and chuckled when she said, “It’s that magical season when 5 seemingly separate storylines are cleverly sandwiched between commercial breaks and then tied together at the end like a beautiful blow. Like that movie, Love, Actually, which I don’t think anyone cares for and yet, it is constantly on cable.” HAHA It looks like something happened to Artie as he is rolling down the halls of McKinley, wounded and bruised, and a bit frantic. Finn sees him and helps him out when he dropped all of his books and papers. Artie says he fell when his wheelchair flipped backwards but claims he’s fine. He is taken to the nurse’s office and she asks him to rest and lay down until her mother comes. Finn offers to help him get to the bed but Artie doesn’t want to and doesn’t accept any help because he’s tired of being so helpless and with everyone pitying him. However, Finn eventually he

Exclusive : Ouya celebrates 100% Shipping fulfilment months ahead of schedule.
Ouya Game Reviews

“Mission Accomplished!” Those were the celebratory words said to be ringing around Ouya’s Bahamian offices yesterday as news broke that the maximum number of Ouyas possible has been shipped to the homesteads of android starved early backers – all 100% of them! Originally set to release on March 25th, The technology media’s wholesale regurgitation of Ouya’s own press releases generated so much buzz among elderly technology media editors that the company decided to forgo much of its allotted beta testing and quality control period to bring the release date forward to June 25th. However, due to the extensive holiday schedule of the Chinese workers in the Foxconn factory, plans had to be altered once more. It was determined that the best course of action was to move towards a final release explosion in early May.  “We were hoping for an announcement of a June launch” Explained gleaming veteran visionary, Julie Uhrman at an impromptu press con

An Easter Egg In My Stocking!
thebettereditor

It’s only Monday, but it’s going to be really hard to beat this entry for worst mixed metaphor of the week*: “It’s an Easter egg hunt, looking for eggs out there. And when you come up with something like this, it’s Christmas.” This is from an interview with the guy who thinks he’s found a document with the original recipe for Coca Cola (readable or watchable at just about any news outlet in the known universe). This quote demonstrates a special kind of accidental genius, in the way one holiday suddenly becomes another. It could only have been better if the eggs were found in a stocking, or under a tree. Check back later in the week for a more serious post! [*Just to be clear: there is no actual weekly "worst mixed metaphor contest." But at times like this I think it might be a good idea to hold one!]

My College Career… Photo Reflection
Country Living For 2
Letting the Days Roll By.......
Fast Easy Silver Cleaning
Bringing Up Bacons
Free Original Download – “Another Christmas” For Producers
The Wes Brown Show
I’m Back
Glittermoon Vintage Christmas
Christmas, Easter and the other important Holiday
Barely Controlled Chaos
Crash and Burn and Relite….
camsgranny

This morning started out with a bunch of promise.  While it is not the “usual Monday morning routine”, it started out with promise.  I didn’t have Cam-man this morning, so I woke up at normal time, and did some stuff around the house, to help myself for when I got home.  I am trying to stop neglecting the things I normally do and try to cover all of my bases. After doing all the stuff, I do not normally do on a Monday morning, I headed out, to the Farmers.  I felt a bit lonely, because I don’t have  Cam-Man with me.  Have I mentioned that I personally don’t like change, but that I can adapt? I arrived at the Farmers and got put out immediately.  Pfft, I am a back door daughter, and when I went to the back door, I could not open it.  The screen door was locked and I don’t have a key to the back door. Well… to be truthful, I do, but I can’t tell which friggin key it is. So, I went back around and entered into through the front door.  The Fa

Mutarotation
Metaphysical Debris

Saturday, December 28, 2002 1:46 AM  My parents arrived Tuesday morning with a carload of presents and food.  By the afternoon, my sister, some cousins, and a few other relatives arrived. As has become the tradition, we all spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at our house. We were expecting Paul’s family (about ten additional people) to join us for dinner on Christmas afternoon.  Walter called in the morning to cancel.  He wanted to talk to us about business, but he didn’t want to “ruin” Christmas Day.  He invited us to their house instead, the day after Christmas.  Weird, inconsiderate, and ominous… whatever. This created a problem of leftovers. Above the fridge are crackers, pretzels, nuts, and chips.  In the fridge are accompanying condiments, dips, spreads, cheeses, olive salad, roasted peppers, caponata, sopressata, etc.  Also in the fridge are large quantities of meatballs, lasagna, roasted turkey, honey-cured ham, jumbo shrimp, lobster bisque, coleslaw, mashed potatoes,

The Inscrutable Law of Universe IMHO
Where Thy Mind Wanders

Birth and death, as the origin and termination of life have mystified thinkers and philosophers for generations. As for common people like us who apparently claim to have a life, or not, we also have our moments of reflection. The only citable difference between the scholarly mortals from the pages of the history and the mostly-ordinary people is that they try to analyze concepts like life, destiny, purpose, divinity, and all that in between, with equanimity and composure, drawing references from the lives of their own and those around them. Strange for us, those mos come with a sudden upheaval of emotions, fury, denial, resistance and of course, a lasting feeling of anguish. I have often seen people throw a question (at nobody) – “Why me?”. Seriously, why them?? Or why any of us? Or all of us? Quotations by philosophers and theologies by religions try to establish things like, life is but a sad tale with glimpses of happiness, life is a purgatory, life is purgation, etc.. John Calvin’

What Child Is This
Free Christian Scripts

Mix “A Little Princess” with “Annie” then add a dash of “The Little Match Girl” and you end up with “What Child Is This”, a full length Christmas play with a built-in nativity scene that is created and produced by the kids in the cast themselves. The cast of WCIT is predominantly children from, say, 7 or 8 to 14.  This script is a lot to ask of a bunch of kids, but I know from experience they can do it.  In a world where canned church musicals do everything from playing the music to providing pre-recorded, badly acted dialog allowing the kids to stand around like mannequins or Milli Vanilli, this is a challenge worth giving. (Those “plays” are really embarrassing.  They are exactly what gives Christian drama a bad name.  Do you really have that low an opinion of the capabilities of today’s youth?  If so, please read “Do Hard Things” and wake up.) This play was exceptionally well received, including an affirmi

A Different Kind Of Post
thingsandnonsense

There are several things which I hold very dear to my heart. Actually, there are very many things I hold dear to my heart such as books, certain TV shows, my friends and family, Rubik’s cubes, peanut butter and jam on toast, toast in general, and all things of that ilk. But I want to write about the affection which I hold for the postal service. As I’m in the UK, I guess I’m talking about the Royal Mail but a postal service anywhere is pretty cool in my eyes. I know that we tend to email and text people these days rather than send a letter, as they’re quicker, cheaper and in many ways more efficient methods of communication. But I still love the post! I still get excited when I hear letters land on the floor by the front door and will make an effort, even if I’m doing something else great like eating peanut butter and jam on toast, to go and get it straight away, because the thought of post just lying there unopened is more than I can bear. It’s like

Call Off Christmas
The e-Astronomer

Some interesting “MOOCs will change everything” stuff on the webby-media today. Although I blogged about this a short while ago, I am tempted to have another go. But while I think about this, here is something much sillier. The Royal Institution have decided to trademark the phrase “Christmas Lectures”. No really. If you give a lecture at Christmas, and advertise it as a Christmas Lecture, you may be breaking the law. Here is their official statement, and here is a blog post by Ian Gent explaining why it is a very bad idea, as well as an unjustified one. Those of who follow Mike Merrifield on Twitter will know that he is particularly miffed, being already booked to give a series of Christmas Lectures this year… The official statement includes an email address if you’d like to discuss this with the RI… Well. We understand why they are doing it I suppose. But yea verily, it is an silly idea. Here is Alan Rickman in his classic impersonation of a

How to Approach Holiday Gift Giving in Your Relationship
megansaad

It is that festive time of year again when, all of sudden, there is so much to do in so little time. There is also an enormous pressure to spend, spend, spend in order to make the holidays special. In addition to decorating the house, buying food, sending out cards to your nearest and dearest and buying presents for your family and friends, there is the issue of buying a present for your partner. The first thing to consider is your budget: what you want to spend, what you can afford to spend and what he/she expects you to spend. Make a list of all the things you need to buy for the holiday season and how much each item will cost (roughly). Then consider your finances and how much you are able to spend on your other half. It may also be a good idea to talk to your partner about how much you should spend on each other, to avoid an embarrassing exchange on the big day. Next, think back to recent conversations with your boyfriend/girlfriend to see if they have given you any hints as to wha

Day 251 and Counting… A Late Christmas Present?
The Restoration Tour

Sunday, April 17, 2011 Today, Ceecee finally “got” one of her “12 Days” gifts from last Christmas. It wasn’t given late, it was actually just given way early.  It was two tickets to the musical, “Chicago,” which is probably my wife’s favorite.  She loves the movie and the soundtrack, but had never seen it performed in the theater until today. I bought the tickets last Christmas because there was no way I was going to take a chance on them selling out.  That’s happened to us before, and this one is too important to her to risk it. We went to a matinée show this afternoon, then I bought stuff to make a seafood dinner not too much different from what we had for Valentine’s.  I figured it worked then, so don’t fix what’s not broken, right?  Life is too good right now!

Year Abroad End of Season Ratings
blankenblog